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no jokes please. why wouldn't a window unit take a charge ? been working on them for 4 yrs. and never had this happen. i usually charge the low side with a fitting that meters the liquid. sometimes it wont take it all but i can put the rest in the high side. I just changed the compressor and no burnout, so the system should be clean. They are 15 year old Climatemasters. Charge is 2 pounds

Some of those old climatemasters are nice seperate fans for the evap and condensor some even ran a small tap off the condensor line and to a coil loop on the evap for dehumidification not like the GE's zoneline crap with an undersized compressor and an accumulator. But cheap does not even begin to describe Hotels thats why they fix 15 yr old window units. I once tried to sell a hotel three new ice machines had a contract on their three old ones and they were between 10 and 15 years old and installed outside in the breezeways in Florida. The three new units financed all under warranty for 3 years was less monthly than my service contract with them but they could not do it because the company was not allowed to finance capital improvements. Go figure.

thehumid1-------I live in NJ, a state where it's free to come in but you have to pay to leave!